unctuousness


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Synonyms for unctuousness

smug self-serving earnestness

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unctuousness of sermons, even vile, beer-driven rants, that were easier
Charming Don's narcissism, portrayed with maximum unctuousness by Gruber, is largely responsible for Nadine's dropping out of both their romance and their stage act.
For sheer unctuousness and cringe-making hagiographical bombast, there may be no equal.
Kozinski, now married with three children, was a late intellectual bloomer who, before graduating at the top of his law class at UCLA, wiled away his time wooing women in such unusual places as television's Dating Game, which he won with an audaciously smarmy pick-up line: "Good afternoon, the flower of my heart." That unctuousness is totally absent from his legal writings, which feature a razor-sharp analytic skill.
series--thus its pornographic unctuousness. It's because it's
Likewise "spirit," which to many minds "suggests self-deception, flight from reality, wishful thinking, hypocrisy, unctuousness, and so on" (Beyond 24).
Please remember this next time one of their smooth-talking PR men comes on your telly and pretends, with extreme unctuousness oozing from every pore, to believe his own carefully packaged line of tripe.
Neatly painted pictures of Quayside scenes add a nice local touch and the service is attentive without the unctuousness which too many restaurants confuse with class.
His wide range of accents, intonations, and voices perfectly captures the unctuousness, the gruffness, the haughtiness, and the foolishness of the various characters.
Nevertheless, a scent of unctuousness betrays overscrupulous emotional laundering.
Given the transparency of the Bush Administration's lies, the unctuousness of its voice, and its unilateral contempt for any rule of law--civil, international, moral, or financial--why is it that we don't make unto the Lord a not-so-joyful noise?
Poretta's plangent tenor has both great range and accuracy without problems in passage, while baritone LeBron's vocal palette ran the gamut from velvet unctuousness to sinister steel.
If Blair found himself similarly indisposed it's doubtful whether there's an actor in the world who could match his theatrical range of verbose, meaningless unctuousness.